Okay, let’s get the formalities out of the way. IsGrand Theft Auto V the best game of the year? Easily. Is it the best game of this current generation of consoles? Definitely – and it’s quite possibly the best video game yet. I say this after playing it for “only” 20 hours.

“Only” 20 hours is only about half-way done. In judging the game, however, I feel it’s appropriate to draw on the wisdom of Trevor Phillips, the redneck sociopath who’s one of the three main playable characters. When one of his henchman offers to get him anything he wants, Trevor replies in vulgarly funny fashion: “The problem is that I don’t know what I want,” he says. “It’s like pornography or the perfect turd – I’ll know it when I see it.”